I was actually thinking of doing a similar post. Sometimes adding or redoing a feature, even when planned, has unexpected consequences that must be dealt with, and hours later, when you've finished, you realize it turned out to be a much bigger change than expected, even though you thought you knew exactly what needed to be done.īrent's post gives a good example of just how much thought must go into even what appears to be, on the surface, an easy change. I'm revamping the ingredients list in the editor to be an outline instead of the existing table. I just finished going through something similar for MacGourmet 3. There's a good follow-up post by Daniel over at Red Sweater too.įunny Brent should post about this very subject. Even a feature as simple as this one requires some up-front thinking, some design. It’s not enough just to write the basic functionality and add a menu item that runs it. It’s tempting to think that adding a feature like this is just about adding the functionality - but there’s a bunch more to it than that. It really is just a quick http call to the Instapaper server to add a URL to the Read Later list.īut of course it’s not as simple as just writing a quick script. I recently added a pretty easy feature to NetNewsWire - a Send to Instapaper command. There's a great post by Brent Simmons (he's had a few good ones lately actually) about the thought process and decision making that goes into adding even what, to the average user, would appear to be a simple feature:
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